Re: Working 2 jobs
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2022 5:04 pm
Hi there, difficult to know where to start, so I’ll start with a list. I work 2 jobs, but current crisis’s are.
-$0 in the bank
-no childcare
-Unemployed
-multiple eviction notices while on the pending application status with OREAP since sept 2021. I owe $10,000+ since last year. Anxiety
-phone bill due today
-owe $700+ in taxes
-expecting court fines from last year
-mental/emotional grief trauma after shocking DNA results.
-long term uncertainty and stress since Covid
-Grief from so much loss overall
-car, phone, gas, and everyday expenses with children in sports
I’m in a frozen state of fear and anxiety lately even though I work 2 jobs I regularly speak to a therapist 2 a month and have been working with a skills trainer to help navigate resources. I’m not approved for TANF because I receive $600 in child support a month. That barely scratches the surface for the crisis I’m in. Also not eligible for child care assistance because I’m not employed. Honestly that rule makes no sense.
The biggest issue is catching up with bills owed, along with initial costs to secure daycare. After that’s secure I can commit to full time employment and get back to being the awesome single mom I used to be.
Before Covid I worked full time for a beverage distributor as a class A truck driver. Due to kids out of school I lost that job. Along with the world I had built around it but now I have 2 jobs. When the time came to go back, they wouldn’t hire me back. Devastated me, without understanding why. I tried to work for UPS as a seasonal worker, but was unable to finish because my daycare failed. Since then I’ve not been employed. I’ve been coasting by with no financial assistance other then food stamps, Little child support and what’s left from my small tax return. My bank is now empty. I had an interview with another delivery company but the hours were very early. I was struggling to figure out care for my kids that early. I’ve about given up on the hope with childcare help. Started trying to train my kids to get themselves up and off to school. But the dangers of that terrify me. I’ve been frantically trying to find a way out of this mess, trying to keep my sanity. My skills trainer had one last option to try since we exhausted all the other options. He wrote a request to OHP, approved by my therapist, for funds to cover costs for after school program for my daughter. That request was denied.
It seems one must go through all the hoops of rejection and fear and be in serious crisis before anyone will consider to help. During this madness I discovered some incredibly traumatic and shocking news about my DNA, my identity, my father is not my biological father. And then discovered actual biological father is already a relative. I’m still struggling to wrap my mind around this. It consumes me everyday. I need help. More help then my current therapist is trained for. I just want to be whole again and be the best mom I can for my kids. I’m an introverted person that takes pride in doing things myself. Honestly my pity party annoys me. I don’t want to be a burden. Asking for help is one of the hardest things for me, those my 2 jobs. Yet I know I can’t get out of this one without it.
I hope this reaches the right person. Thank you for taking the time to read all that.
-$0 in the bank
-no childcare
-Unemployed
-multiple eviction notices while on the pending application status with OREAP since sept 2021. I owe $10,000+ since last year. Anxiety
-phone bill due today
-owe $700+ in taxes
-expecting court fines from last year
-mental/emotional grief trauma after shocking DNA results.
-long term uncertainty and stress since Covid
-Grief from so much loss overall
-car, phone, gas, and everyday expenses with children in sports
I’m in a frozen state of fear and anxiety lately even though I work 2 jobs I regularly speak to a therapist 2 a month and have been working with a skills trainer to help navigate resources. I’m not approved for TANF because I receive $600 in child support a month. That barely scratches the surface for the crisis I’m in. Also not eligible for child care assistance because I’m not employed. Honestly that rule makes no sense.
The biggest issue is catching up with bills owed, along with initial costs to secure daycare. After that’s secure I can commit to full time employment and get back to being the awesome single mom I used to be.
Before Covid I worked full time for a beverage distributor as a class A truck driver. Due to kids out of school I lost that job. Along with the world I had built around it but now I have 2 jobs. When the time came to go back, they wouldn’t hire me back. Devastated me, without understanding why. I tried to work for UPS as a seasonal worker, but was unable to finish because my daycare failed. Since then I’ve not been employed. I’ve been coasting by with no financial assistance other then food stamps, Little child support and what’s left from my small tax return. My bank is now empty. I had an interview with another delivery company but the hours were very early. I was struggling to figure out care for my kids that early. I’ve about given up on the hope with childcare help. Started trying to train my kids to get themselves up and off to school. But the dangers of that terrify me. I’ve been frantically trying to find a way out of this mess, trying to keep my sanity. My skills trainer had one last option to try since we exhausted all the other options. He wrote a request to OHP, approved by my therapist, for funds to cover costs for after school program for my daughter. That request was denied.
It seems one must go through all the hoops of rejection and fear and be in serious crisis before anyone will consider to help. During this madness I discovered some incredibly traumatic and shocking news about my DNA, my identity, my father is not my biological father. And then discovered actual biological father is already a relative. I’m still struggling to wrap my mind around this. It consumes me everyday. I need help. More help then my current therapist is trained for. I just want to be whole again and be the best mom I can for my kids. I’m an introverted person that takes pride in doing things myself. Honestly my pity party annoys me. I don’t want to be a burden. Asking for help is one of the hardest things for me, those my 2 jobs. Yet I know I can’t get out of this one without it.
I hope this reaches the right person. Thank you for taking the time to read all that.